Patents by Inventor Robert Mason
Robert Mason has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240131974Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a method (500) of fabricating a cover for an interior trim component or an exterior trim component for a vehicle. The method comprising forming a 3D knitted structure (510) by knitting together at least one heat activated yarn and at least one non-heat activated yarn. The structure may be arranged whereby, during a subsequent heat treatment process (520) in which the cover is heated to a temperature at or above an activation temperature, the heat-activated yarn is activated thereby to form an automotive cover having a knitted structure of increased stiffness once cooled.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Belinda MASON, Sarah-Kate FRASER, Gege XU, Robert CROW
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Patent number: 11966303Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems including memory self-recovery management to correct failures due to soft-error rate events. The self-recovery manager detects a failure of a memory device. The self-recovery manager retrieves a set of register values from the memory device. The self-recovery manager stores the set of register values from the memory device. The self-recovery manager issues a reset command to the memory device, the reset command including generating a re-initialized set of register values. The self-recovery manager compares the set of register values with the re-initialized set of register values. The self-recovery manager triggering a self-recovery attempt using the comparison of the set of register values with the re-initialized set of register values.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Robert Mason, Scott A. Stoller, Pitamber Shukla, Kenneth W. Marr, Chi Ming Chu, Hossein Afkhami
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Patent number: 11939421Abstract: A curative system comprising a combination of adipic acid dihydrazide and/or isophthalic dihydrazide and a clathrate in which the guest compound of the clathrate comprises an imidazole, an imidazoline or diazabicycloalkanes (DBCA).Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: HEXCEL COMPOSITES LIMITEDInventors: Christopher Robert Mason, Nicholas Verge
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Patent number: 11937074Abstract: The present document relates to methods and apparatus for rendering input audio for playback in a playback environment. The input audio includes at least one audio object and associated metadata, and the associated metadata indicates at least a location of the audio object. A method for rendering input audio including divergence metadata for playback in a playback environment comprises creating two additional audio objects associated with the audio object such that respective locations of the two additional audio objects are evenly spaced from the location of the audio object, on opposite sides of the location of the audio object when seen from an intended listener's position in the playback environment, determining respective weight factors for application to the audio object and the two additional audio objects, and rendering the audio object and the two additional audio objects to one or more speaker feeds in accordance with the determined weight factors.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Dolby International ABInventors: Michael William Mason, Juan Felix Torres, Antonio Mateos Sole, Daniel Arteaga, Adam J. Mills, Mark David de Burgh, Andrew Robert Owen
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Publication number: 20240085479Abstract: An apparatus includes a safety fault interrupter circuit. The safety fault interrupter circuit includes a safety fault monitor coupled to a first bias node and configured to selectively assert a fault interrupter signal based at least in part on a first bias voltage and a first power consumption. The safety fault interrupter circuit also includes a power fault monitor for the safety fault monitor, wherein the power fault monitor is coupled to a second bias node and is configured to selectively assert the fault interrupter signal based at least in part on a second bias voltage and a second power consumption that is less than the first power consumption.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventor: Robert Mason HANRAHAN
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Patent number: 11879052Abstract: The host compound in a clathrate is an amino or hydroxyl containing aromatic phosphorous compound, clathrates containing a resin curative and their use in curable resin compositions to produce moulded articles particularly fibre reinforced articles.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: HEXCEL COMPOSITES LIMITEDInventor: Christopher Robert Mason
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Patent number: 11867761Abstract: An apparatus includes a safety fault interrupter circuit. The safety fault interrupter circuit includes a safety fault monitor coupled to a first bias node and configured to selectively assert a fault interrupter signal based at least in part on a first bias voltage and a first power consumption. The safety fault interrupter circuit also includes a power fault monitor for the safety fault monitor, wherein the power fault monitor is coupled to a second bias node and is configured to selectively assert the fault interrupter signal based at least in part on a second bias voltage and a second power consumption that is less than the first power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventor: Robert Mason Hanrahan
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Patent number: 11860823Abstract: The present technology pertains to a details pane that is displayed in coordination with a file explorer interface. The details pane can display details including activities, comments, and previews for content items displayed in the details pane. In some embodiments, the content items displayed in the file explorer interface can be stored in and accessed from different services, and the details in the details pane can also be populated from diverse sources. In some embodiments, edits or navigations can be performed within a preview of the content item. In some embodiments, comments can be shown along with previews that show the comment located within the content item.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Valentine, Thomas Fisher, Nicholas Sundin, Parker Wilf, Robert Mason, Tomaz Nedeljko, Evan Tana
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Patent number: 11853664Abstract: A method for compensation network design in a power converter design system is provided that includes computing optimal values for compensation components in a compensation network based on a plurality of loop specifications comprising crossover frequency (Fco), phase margin (PM), Gain Margin (GM), and low frequency gain (LFG), and applying changes to a power converter design comprising the compensation network based on the optimal values.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Srikanth Pam, Yudhister Satija, Pradeep Kumar Chawda, Makram Mounzer Mansour, Robert Mason Hanrahan, Jeffrey Robert Perry
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Publication number: 20230393955Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems including memory self-recovery management to correct failures due to soft-error rate events. The self-recovery manager detects a failure of a memory device. The self-recovery manager retrieves a set of register values from the memory device. The self-recovery manager stores the set of register values from the memory device. The self-recovery manager issues a reset command to the memory device, the reset command including generating a re-initialized set of register values. The self-recovery manager compares the set of register values with the re-initialized set of register values. The self-recovery manager triggering a self-recovery attempt using the comparison of the set of register values with the re-initialized set of register values.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Robert Mason, Scott A. Stoller, Pitamber Shukla, Kenneth W. Marr, Chi Ming Chu, Hossein Afkhami
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Patent number: 11831054Abstract: A method of maintaining health of a flow battery includes determining an average oxidation state of a common electrochemically active elemental specie in first and second fluid electrolytes on, respectively, a positive side and a negative side of an electrochemical cell of a flow battery, and adjusting the average oxidation state in response to the average oxidation state deviating from a predefined average oxidation state value.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2013Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: RTX CorporationInventors: Robert Mason Darling, Michael L. Perry
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Publication number: 20230333762Abstract: A failure of a block among a set of blocks of a memory device of a memory subsystem is detected. Based on detecting the failure of the block, the block is evaluated for reuse. The block is designated for reuse based on a result of the evaluating of the block. The block is allocated to a task based on the block being designated for reuse.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2022Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Robert Mason, Pitamber Shukla, Scott Anthony Stoller, Stuart A. Bell, Dennis J. Borgonos
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Patent number: 11745891Abstract: A propulsion system according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes a fuel storage tank that is configured to store a fuel in a compressed state, a power generation device that is configured to consume the fuel and generate an output, a fuel system that is configured to provide the fuel from the fuel storage tank to the power generation device, and an electrochemical compressor that is in communication with the fuel system. The electrochemical compressor is configured to gather residual fuel from the fuel system and communicate the gathered residual fuel to at least one of the power generation device and the fuel storage tank.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Jonathan Rheaume, Robert Mason Darling
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Patent number: 11726967Abstract: A versioned file storage system (VFS) and method for operating and using the same is disclosed. In an aspect, a mechanism is provided wherein a first VFS interface unit coupling the VFS to a local data storage system is replaced with a second VFS interface unit in a coordinated procedure for taking the first unit offline, making a reliable snapshot of its data and cache structure in the VFS, and loading the same data and cache structure into the second VFS interface brought online. The first and second VFS interfaces transfer the necessary data to achieve the switch through respective side-loading daemons running in each interface. Clients in the local data storage system experience minimal interruption of services in the VFS.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Nasuni CorporationInventors: Christopher S. Lacasse, Kevin William Baughman, Robert Mason, Matthew M. McDonald, David M. Shaw, Jon Vincent
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Patent number: 11702516Abstract: This invention relates to a curative composition and its use in curing epoxy resins and prepregs, adhesives and moulded materials derived therefrom. The curative composition comprises a clathrate comprising a host component and a guest component, the host comprising a carboxylic acid or ester compounds as defined or phenolphthalin and the guest comprising an imidazole or imidazoline component.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: HEXCEL COMPOSITES LIMITEDInventors: David Allan Tilbrook, Christopher Robert Mason, Martin Richard Simmons
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Publication number: 20230216076Abstract: A fuel cell assembly including a fuel cell stack having a first stack end and a second stack end, a first end plate located at the first stack end, and a second end plate located at the second stack end. The fuel cell stack being interposed between the first end plate and the second end plate. The fuel cell assembly including a compliant assembly extending from a first end to a second end located opposite the first end. The compliant assembly is configured to anchor together the fuel cell stack, the first end plate, and the second end plate. The compliant assembly include a rod extending from a first rod end to a second rod end. The compliant assembly also includes a connector body secured to the rod at or proximate the first rod end and an anchoring mechanism secured to the connector body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2022Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Andrzej Ernest Kuczek, Robert Mason Darling, Kristoffer Ridgeway, Timothy Davenport
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Publication number: 20230167272Abstract: The host compound in a clathrate is an amino or hydroxyl containing aromatic phosphorous compound, clathrates containing a resin curative and their use in curable resin compositions to produce moulded articles particularly fibre reinforced articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: HEXCEL COMPOSITES LIMITEDInventor: Christopher Robert MASON
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Patent number: 11664518Abstract: A redox flow battery includes a redox flow cell and a supply and storage system external of the redox flow cell. The supply and storage system includes first and second electrolytes for circulation through the redox flow cell. The first electrolyte is a liquid electrolyte having electrochemically active manganese species with multiple, reversible oxidation states in the redox flow cell. The electrochemically active manganese species may undergo reactions that cause precipitation of manganese oxide solids. The first electrolyte includes an inhibitor that limits the self-discharge reactions. The inhibitor includes an oxoanion compound.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Timothy Davenport, James D. Saraidaridis, Robert Mason Darling
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Publication number: 20230127594Abstract: The present invention is directed to a rechargeable electrochemical device including a first electrode assembly and a second electrode assembly spaced-apart from the first electrode assembly, a membrane arranged between the first electrode assembly and the second electrode assembly, a first transport plate arranged on the first electrode assembly and a second transport plate arranged on the second electrode assembly, an electrolyte disposed in the first electrode assembly and the second electrode assembly, and a vapor-phase hydrogen carrier in the first transport plate arranged on the first electrode assembly or in the second transport plate arranged on the second electrode assembly; a method for using a rechargeable electrochemical device; and a method for making a rechargeable electrochemical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: James D. Saraidaridis, Robert Mason Darling
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Patent number: 11616742Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to methods and systems for transferring a user's messaging history from one device to another. A user's primary device, storing the official truth of the user's messaging history, establishes an end-to-end encrypted session with a new device, using a first decryption key during initial session setup. The primary device may conglomerate all or a portion of the messages comprising the user's messaging history into a data blob which is encrypted and sent to a blob store. An E2E encrypted message is sent from the primary device to the new device, via an intermediate server. The E2E encrypted message includes a second key for decrypting the data blob and a pointer to the location of data blob on the blob store. The new device retrieves the data blob from the blob store and decrypts the data blob using the second key to extract plaintext versions of the user's messages and adds the messages to the messaging application on the new device.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: WhatsApp LLCInventors: Alfonso Gomez Jordana Manas, Bruno Rafael Penteado Muratore, Cheng Tian, Daniel Lozano Valdes, Maksym Koshtenko, Oleg Sukhodolskii, Robert Mason, Theodore Elliot Yaung